REL S 390A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Echinopsis Pachanoi, Arawak, Orinoco
,IS the study guide already completed? Or is there anything missing?- these are just my notes
that I took off of her studyguides as well as things I added from the quizzes
And does anyone have a quizet/google doc for our workbook quizzes?
https://quizlet.com/_3r8da9
Did the Aztecs practice cannibalism? I asked her about this and she said we didn’t need to
know about it - thanks
Chapter 1:
Primal Religions
● Rely on relationships to the environment
● Characteristics
○ Nature-based
○ Animistic
○ shamans :
○ Symbolic world- visions and dreams
○ Time is cyclical, endless
Iroquois
● North Eastern region of N. America
● Leadership was called a Confederacy
○ Developed to make peace between fighting tribes
○ Tribes gained spokesman/representation
● Women nominate the chief and invest him with office
Wampum
● Money and written script
● No writing system- oral tradition with beads as memory stimulants. They used shell
beads to represent significant events
Iroquois religion
● Great Spirit vs. Evil Spirit
● Lesser deities
● Use of tobacco smoke and lesser deities to pray to Great Spirit
● Dream communicate the will of the spirits
Religious Specialists
● Six rituals with farming, healing, and giving thanks for the animals and plants
● Afterlife of the soul
False Face Society
● Medicinal men/women of the Iroquois
● Masks are used in rituals which invoke the spirit of an old hunch-backed man who heals
● Those cured by the society become members
Sweat Lodge
● Ceremonial bath/purification ceremony
Powhatan People--Virginia region
● Algonquian speakers
○ Ruled by a mamanatowick (Big Chief)
○ Hunters/fishing/gatherers/agriculture
■ Moving fields--slash and burn
○ 30 groups under control by 17th century
○ Group that meets the British in Virginia
Religion
- God Okee—deity of suffering/warrior god
- God Ahone—good deity—creator God
Kwiocosk
- Shamans- most important men in Powhatan society
- Chiefs sought approval from kwiocosk before engaging in most important activities
- Medicine—rattling, sucking, herbs
- Divination—finding thieves, locating animals
Religion
- Sacrifices of food and animal blood, tobacco, beads
- Human sacrifices of war prisoners—only men sacrifices
- Rite of passage yearly for young boys reaching adulthood
- At death chiefs were skinned, dried over a fire, sewn together with stuffing
The Cherokees of the Southeastern Woodlands
- Despite being influenced by the whites, the Cherokee maintained a unique conceptual
system
- Sequoyah designed and perfected an ingenious syllabary of 86 symbols and the traditions
were set down in the Cherokee’s own language
- The Cherokee conceptual system does not begin with the story of creation of the cosmos
- It concerned with the order of things and begins with
o The shaping of the world
o The sacred ordering of space
o Categories of space
- Other Cherokee myths and traditions
o Kinship with animals
o Dimensions of the 3 world
o The sun and the moon
o Priests, witches, medicine and conjury
o Rites of passage
o Rites of intensification and renewal
o Myths concerning food sources
- The Green Corn Ceremony
o Includes all of the major elements of the Cherokee world view
o Took place at the first ripening of the new corn
o Length varied from 3-8 days
Hopi
- SW Pueblo People
- Kivas
- Kachinas (500 types)
o Ritual dancers
o Teachers
Early Mesoamerican societies in Latin America, 1200 B.C.E.-1100 C.E.
Document Summary
Or is there anything missing?- these are just my notes that i took off of her studyguides as well as things i added from the quizzes. And does anyone have a quizet/google doc for our workbook quizzes? https://quizlet. com/_3r8da9. I asked her about this and she said we didn"t need to know about it - thanks. Developed to make peace between fighting tribes. Women nominate the chief and invest him with office. No writing system- oral tradition with beads as memory stimulants. They used shell beads to represent significant events. Use of tobacco smoke and lesser deities to pray to great spirit. Dream communicate the will of the spirits. Six rituals with farming, healing, and giving thanks for the animals and plants. Masks are used in rituals which invoke the spirit of an old hunch-backed man who heals. Those cured by the society become members. 30 groups under control by 17th century. Group that meets the british in virginia.
